updated Mon. February 12, 2024
-
BBC News
April 26, 2018
Facebook's chief technology officer is to promise MPs that the social network will act to make political advertising far more transparent for UK users. Mike Schroepfer will say that his firm will be ready to authorise ads in time for England and Northern Ireland's May 2019 local elections. He will make theÃâà...
Madison.com
April 26, 2018
Companies spend millions of dollars for advertisements on every type of media. Regardless of the accuracy of the claims they make, these companies know they work to influence the average citizen and sell their products. Advertisements sell us politicians in the same way. Groups called super PACsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 26, 2018
That money too involved undelivered military equipment from the shah's era, though some U.S. politicians have criticized the delivery as a ransom payment. Others with ties to the West detained in Iran include Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison forÃâà...
DailyEdge.ie
April 25, 2018
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN TOOK 'kongress' this week to speak lobbying for cosmetic safety reform. Fresh off the release of her Kylie Cosmetics collaboration with her younger sister of the same name, the self-professed green beauty-lover is meeting with several members of congress to lobby for betterÃâà...
Breaking Israel News
April 23, 2018
“But one tribe shall remain his—for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael.” I Kings 11:32 (The Israel Bible™). Newly minted Israeli road signs for the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem are circulating in social media. (Source unknown).
South China Morning Post
April 7, 2018
As the United States and China edge closer to an all-out trade war, some American politicians are breaking party ranks over US President Donald Trump's threat to levy punitive tariffs on an additional US$100 billion in Chinese goods. Despite dissent in his own Republican Party, Trump showed no sign onÃâà...
The Cheat Sheet
April 6, 2018
Having a job as a U.S. politician. doesn't guarantee that you'll live a squeaky clean and scandal-free life. And we aren't just talking about politicians themselves — we're talking about their family members. As it turns out, there is a long line of politicians' children getting themselves stealing the spotlight forÃâà...
Idaho Statesman
December 31, 1999
Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as a rush of officials in Republican-dominant states push legislation that would punish both doctors and patients, even though such laws are likely unconstitutional. In Idaho, Republicans competing in a crowded field for governor have made itÃâà...
|
resources
A guide to the money in U.S. elections
Thousands of candidates and officials, five areas of information. What would you like to know? Project Vote Smart (PVS) is a citizen's organization dedicated to serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making.
Find out more about PVS
.
votesmart.org
Candidate Search by Last Name:
The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography,
or, The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried
news and opinion
|
